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Quote of the Day - September

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September 21st

Ideas have power – as long as they are not frozen in doctrine. But ideas need legs. The eight-hour day, the minimum wage, the conservation of natural resources and the protection of our air, water, and land, women's rights and civil rights, free trade unions, Social Security and a civil service based on merit – all these were launched as citizen's movements and won the endorsement of the political class only after long struggles and in the face of bitter opposition and sneering attacks.
- - Bill Moyers

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September 22nd

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
- - Art Buchwald

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September 23rd

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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September 24th

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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September 26th

Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.
-- Dave Barry

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September 27th

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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September 28th

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
-- Harvey Mindess

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September 29th

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.
- - Gene Hill

4dk - who just found out it's National Dog Week. Of course in our household every week is Dog Week, in fact every day is Dog Day!
 

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September 30th

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
-- Lillian Hellman

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